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6 What Is Publishing in the Future?
Pages 67-79

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From page 67...
... The raw ingredients—the data, the computational models, the outputs of instruments, the records of deliberation—could be online and accessible by others, and could conceivably be used to validate or reproduce results at a deeper level than traditionally has been possible. The primary source data can be made available with a minimum set of metadata and terms and conditions.
From page 68...
... Google uses behavioral metrics of links in their page rank algorithm. Many people check how they are ranked on Google on various search strings.
From page 69...
... The main one is the all-time, "top 10" downloads, but it also has many other different top-10 categories, so that more of the authors using the system have a chance to be a winner. Issues in Evolving Credentialing Processes The preceding examples provide some potential models for developing credentialing processes for scientific publication in the future.
From page 70...
... e-Prints, on the other hand, tend to be more polished papers deposited by authors in a public online archive in order to speed up the communication process and give authors more control over the public availability of their work. The e-Print arXiv in Physics Back in 1991, Paul Ginsparg created the e-Print arXiv45 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
From page 71...
... NCSTRL, the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library, was an early effort to get com puter science papers harvested together and then start to build a federated collection of that literature.47 NTLTD, developed by Ed Fox at the University of Virginia, provides thesis dissertations. Within the federal government, the NASA National Technical Reports Server (NTRS)
From page 72...
... It is in that spirit that this presentation looks at the present. The Changing Role of Universities in Making Their Research Output Openly Accessible The main action one should watch for is not in the new technology, but the possibility of new players finding institutional reasons related to their other primary missions to participate in a new game of disintermediate thy neighbor.
From page 73...
... For example, some rights generously granted by Reed Elsevier to its authors include the right to photocopy or make electronic copies of the article for their own personal use, the right to post the final unpublished version of the article on a secure network (not accessible to the public) within the author's institution, and the right to present the paper at a meeting or conference and to hand copies of the paper to the delegates attending the meeting.
From page 74...
... They include quality publications and a publication process with integrity, certainly, but also: open, extensible indexes of publications; automatic extraction of relevant selections from publications; automatic compilation of publication fragments; static and dynamic links among publications, publication fragments, and primary data; data mining across multiple publications; automatic linking of publications to visualization tools; integration into the semantic web; and hundreds of things no one has thought of yet. Will the information technology to support scholarly research be stillborn because everything is hidden behind legal and electronic fences?
From page 75...
... Dan Atkins read a question from a member of the Webcast audience, who asked: Might not the thread of the original version of a paper, along with reviewers' comments and authors' revisions or responses to the comment, as well as the journal editor's additional comments and interpretations, be used as educational material and enrichment for university students? This could be done either anonymously or by attribution.
From page 76...
... Instead, you want to have elements that are communicating through open standards, so that lots of people can come in at different places in the value chain and add value in different ways. Evaluating STM Literature Outside Academia Donald King noted that in his studies of the amount and types of use of STM articles, approximately 25 percent of those articles are read by academicians, and the rest are read outside of the academic community.
From page 77...
... MIT has been trying to get its teaching staff who are coming up for tenure to identify three things on which they should be evaluated. The goal is to try to get the enterprise focused on what Alan Kaye used to call "the metric of Sistine Chapel ceilings per century, rather than papers per week." Problems with Metrics Martin Blume was happy to hear Rick Luce use the word indicators, rather than metrics, because there is no one number that can be used as a measure of quality.
From page 78...
... Rich Luce noted that an issue of deep concern to the governmental sector, and to public institutional repositories, is being able to have access to material created with public monies, and to make these materials publicly available. One can easily imagine a system again that is open at the bottom level, where there are some nuggets that perhaps publishers might look at and start to mine for opportunities to add value to on a more formal basis.
From page 79...
... Reed Elsevier is working together with NISO and other large publishers to develop open standards, so that any metasearch company could come in and search these proprietary services. Finally, Reed Elsevier offers a service called Scirus (www.scirus.com)


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